HF 273: Relating to the term brain health

What it does

This bill relates to the term “brain health”. The bill includes brain illnesses in the legislative findings relating to services to persons with mental illness, an intellectual disability, developmental disabilities, or brain injury in Code chapter 225C (mental health and disability services). The bill provides that the general assembly finds that to reduce the stigma associated with brain health disease and brain illness and to assist Iowans in receiving brain health diagnosis and treatment, the terms “brain health” or “brain illness” may be used synonymous with the terms “mental health” and “mental illness” to allow for more preventative and earlier treatments of those Iowans with brain health issues.

Lobbying · 7 for, 13 against

For: Brain Injury Alliance of Iowa; Easterseals Iowa; IA Mental Health Planning Council; Iowa Association of Business and Industry (ABI); Iowa State Association of Counties; Mental Health America; Mindspring Mental Health Alliance

Against: American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy; Iowa Affiliate of the American College of Nurse-Midwives; Iowa Association of Community Providers; Iowa Behavioral Health Association (IBHA); Iowa Chapter of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners; Iowa Mental Health Counselors Association; Iowa Nurse Practitioners Society; Iowa Nurses Association; Iowa Psychiatric Physicians Society; Iowa Psychological Association; National Alliance on Mental Illness - Iowa; On With Life, Inc.; and 1 more

In plain words

1. February 13, 2023Filed in the House